Aluminiumville. Government, global business and the Scottish Highlands
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- Author(s) Perchard, Andrew C
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2012
- Pages 416pp; illus
- Publisher Crucible Books
- Place Published Lancaster
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- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Environmental issues
- Name Regional & locational issues
- Name Worker / employee housing & communities
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly account of the development of the aluminium smelting industry in the Scottish Highlands by British Aluminium Co Ltd from the very late 19th century to the late 20th century; it is in effect largely a history of the British industry and of British Aluminium Co Ltd and its successor British Alcan. Much on government policy towards the industry and also on the impact of the company, its plant [Foyers, Kinlochleven, Fort William and Invergordon] and its culture on workforce, environment, community, etc, in Scotland. Has chapters: 'Aluminium in the UK'; 'Aluminium and the British government'; 'Health and environment - "contested" terrain'; '"Practical and lasting goal" - aluminium and community in the Highlands'; '"The city among the hills" and the "garden city" - Kinlochleven and Inverlochy'